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We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol
We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!
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These guys are not my friends. They chew through the bottom of my tomato plant stems. Just the bottom, never the rest. Just enough to kill my plants, and then off they go to fuck up something else.
Now I catch them and feed them to my chickens.
Isopods may be friends but all arthropods can stay the fuck away from me.
I want some of them to stay very close to me. Like lobsters and shrimp can be close enough to be in ma belly.
I should clarify that I meant living arthropods.
Some of those fuckers are delicious 😋
Just saw one of these friends today
Do they do something that inconveniences people to not consider them friendly?
What was the original?
I wasn’t able to find an original, but I would assume it was either talking about the fact that they’re crustations and not bugs, or talking about the different regional names for them (roly poly, pill bug, potato bug, etc)
Pill millipedes (looks like Glomeris marginata) vs isopods (some Armadillidium species as it can roll up into a ball). Incredible case of convergent evolution
holy cow, I was today years old when I found out they weren’t the same family.
i thought both pictures, top/bottom, were an interesting factoid where they are crustaceans… you mean to tell me the top one is a millipede?! my life is a lie.
